Lindsey Vonn had quite a day Wednesday. At Under Armour’s 20th birthday celebration, the Olympic skier shared time on stage with ’90s rapper Vanilla Ice and hung out with golfer Jordan Spieth and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

This will be a rematch between Jones (22-1) and Cormier (17-1). Jones won via unanimous decision in January 2015. Jones beat Ovince St. Preux last Saturday at UFC 197 to win the interim title. Cormier is the current champion, winning the championship after Jones was stripped of the belt in April 2015. Read more…

With Conor McGregor off the UFC 200 card, UFC president Dana White said Friday during a press conference that Nate Diaz would have a new opponent.

Diaz had other ideas.

Diaz, who defeated McGregor at UFC 196, made it clear Friday if he isn’t fighting McGregor at UFC 200, he’s not fighting at all.

“I’m going to come down here to fight if we’re going to get that fight going. If not, I’m going on vacation for real,” Diaz said at the UFC 200 press conference.

McGregor announced his retirement on Tuesday via Twitter. White pulled him off the card Thursday, citing that McGregor wasn’t living up to his promotional obligations for the fight.

During the press conference, White said the door has been closed on McGregor fighting at UFC 200.

“You have to show up and promote the fight. You have to show up to the press conferences and shoot the commercials. Is it too much to ask to shoot a commercial or to do the promotion for the fight?” White said. “A lot of these guys showed up here from different parts of the world — Brazil and New Jersey. These guys all came, they had better things to do. And they’re here. It’s part of the job, it’s what we do here.

“We gave Conor every opportunity in the world to get here, too. We get criticized a lot for bending a lot for Conor. And we do. Conor is a guy who has stepped up and fought in big fights on short notice … but you have to show up and do this stuff.”

In response, McGregor went to Twitter:

Everyone flew in. Respect. But not everyone up there made the company 400million in 8 months.

Conor McGregor exits the Octagon after his fight against Nate Diaz in their welterweight bout during the UFC 196 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on March 5, 2016 in Las Vegas. (Rey Del Rio, Getty Images)

“I am just trying to do my job and fight here,” McGregor wrote. “I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote. I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting.

“There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop.”

McGregor was slated for a rematch with Nate Diaz for UFC 200 in Las Vegas. Diaz beat McGregor in their match at UFC 196.

UFC president Dana White pulled McGregor from the UFC 200 card after McGregor announced his retirement.

“White revealed that the decision was made by the promotion after McGregor informed UFC officials that he would not participate in any promotional activities, including a commercial shoot and press conferences,” the UFC released in a statement on Tuesday. Read more…

Neither fighter has fought in an MMA ring since 2011. Carwin retired shortly after his last fight, a unanimous decision loss to Junior dos Santos. Lesnar returned to World Wrestling Entertainment and said he closed the door on a return to MMA in an interview with ESPN.

Update (6:43 p.m. April 19): The UFC has pulled Conor McGregor from the UFC 200 card, president Dana White announced Tuesday.

From UFC: “White revealed that the decision was made by the promotion after McGregor informed UFC officials that he would not participate in any promotional activities, including a commercial shoot and press conferences.”

More updates to come.

UFC fighter Conor McGregor announced on Twitter Tuesday that he had “decided to retire young.”

I have decided to retire young.Thanks for the cheese. Catch ya's later.

The day offers three courses for riders, with a longer day that includes Apex Park, Chimney Gulch and North Table Mountain and two shorter routes that involve only the North Table and “Chimpex” portions of the course.

Early-bird registration for the Sept. 18 enduro-style race sold out in 12 hours on Mar. 29 and full-registration opens Apr. 19. Organizers have directed 1,576 hours of volunteer trail work on trails devastated by the September floods.

Tom Hoby, the director of JeffCo’s open space and parks called those volunteers “the silver lining in the clouds the descended on us in 2013.”

“This is a really great thing and we are excited about,” Hoby said. “We are looking forward to growing this event.”

The event hopes to burnish the image of mountain bikers who frequent Jefferson County’s nearly 230 miles of singletrack as well as champion the work of more than 110 volunteers who have rebuilt area trails since the 2013 floods.

“We’ve got two priorities this year,” said Al Head, the director of the Friends of Apex group that has spent hundreds of hours rebuilding the popular park’s trails. “We’re working on the three parks that make up the Giddyup course, and we’re excited to help build several new trails with features for all users, including mountain bikers.”

The event – which is not really a race but incorporates the increasingly popular enduro format with timed descents and climbs that test both technical prowess and endurance – includes a mountain biking festival with Colorado-made beers, food and gear in Golden’s Lions Park, where riders will start and finish.

Organizers have enlisted New Belgium as a beer sponsor for the event, joining title sponsor Yeti Cycles.
“We’re grateful about the interest and support for the Giddyup,” said the event’s co-founder Ben Davis, who recommends riders register early on the 19th. “Folks are excited about riding bikes on their Front Range trails.”

Rickie Fowler celebrates with Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth after hitting a hole-in-one on the fourth hole during the Par 3 Contest prior to the start of the 2016 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 6, 2016 in Augusta, Georgia. (Andrew Redington, Getty Images)

Playing in the Par 3 Contest at Augusta National has become one of the traditions that players look forward to each year the day before the Masters.

The par 3 course at Augusta has had its fair share of aces over the years and the patrons were not let down this year, as Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler went back-to-back on the fourth hole. All players who card an ace during the Par 3 Contest receive a beautiful crystal vase.

Since 2014, the Denver-based UFC fighter has fought 10 times with his 11th coming up this weekend. He has logged more than 40,000 miles across the globe to get to his fights during that span — 80,000-plus if you include the journey back. He’s done battle everywhere from the Philippines to Mexico to Brazil. And he’s the only UFC fighter to have fought five times in back-to-back calendar years.

It’s a unique experience, said Magny (17-4), part of a journey that has allowed him to see places he probably would not have seen.

But, Magny said in a phone interview, “at the end of the day, it’s another day in the office.”

On Saturday, the jetsetting welterweight will take on No. 13 Hector Lombard (35-4-1) of Cuba at UFC Fight Night roughly 8,000 miles away from Denver in Brisbane, Australia. A win would continue the 28-year-old’s momentum as he’s won nine of his previous 10 fights. Magny, ranked No. 9 among UFC’s welterweights, has won his last two via split decision over Kelvin Gastelum (No. 12) and Erick Silva. Read more…

One name that has popped up is Denver’s own Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone. Cerrone is fresh off his welterweight debut, defeating Alex Oliveira via triangle choke hold last Sunday. But he’s been known for his high-work rate — 13 fights since 2013 — and he’s taken matches on extremely short turnarounds before. In January 2015, he picked up a bout against Benson Henderson just 15 days after beating Myles Jury by decision.

In the Denver native’s first match since losing in his lightweight title bout, he won his debut fight in the welterweight division Sunday making Alex Oliveira submit with a triangle choke submission 2:33 into the match at UFC Fight Night in Pittsburgh.

“The game plan was just more or less just to shoot a takedown or engage,” Cerrone said in an interview with UFC.com after the match. “(I’m) just tired of starting out so slow, (and) trying to figure out a recipe.”

Two minutes into the match, Cerrone took Oliveira down after the Brazilian fighter missed on a right hook.

“I really thought he was trying to get the corner on that, so I wasn’t like tight. And then I hooked the leg and he started tapping,” Cerrone said in the press conference.

Cerrone was awarded with the performance of the night, which comes with a $50,000 bonus.

With his ninth win in 10 fights, Cerrone improved his record to 29-7 as Oliveira fell to 13-4-1. The win marks Cerrone’s 16th in the UFC, leaving him behind just Georges St. Pierre (19), Matt Hughes (18) and Michael Bisping (17).

No word on who Cerrone will fight next, but given his track record, it should be announced fairly soon. He’s had 13 bouts since the beginning of 2013.

“I get to do (55) and 70 now so everybody, if you want to get hurt, I know a guy,” Cerrone said in his in-ring post-fight interview.

Camozzi knees way to win. Cerrone wasn’t the only Denver fighter who received the UFC’s performance of the night. Chris Camozzi, 29, beat Joe Riggs with a barrage of knees in their middleweight fight, resulting in a technical knockout 26 seconds into the bout.

“I’ve always had good knees. A lot of my past fights have been won by knees, I love the Thai clinch, it’s something I’ve trained a lot,” Camozzi said in the post-fight press conference.